Canada gay marriage

The new measure passed by a margin of greater than five-to-one, with support coming from both the governing African National Congress as well as the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance. Archived from the original on March 5, Ottawa Citizen. May 27, A trend resulting from same-sex marriage is evident in the Netherlands, which has allowed homosexual couples to register their partnerships since and which legalized same-sex marriages in Unequal age of consent for anal sex regardless of sexual orientation.

Human rights acts have no exceptions specifically for sexual orientation or gender identity, however, human rights acts typically include an exception for "bona fide requirements" or qualifications that applies to most grounds e.

Given the Supreme Court ruling, the role of precedent in Canadian lawand the overall legal climate, it was very likely that any challenges to legalize same-sex marriage in the remaining four jurisdictions would be successful as well. However the federal government does not have the jurisdiction to set up a comprehensive registry scheme, since it has no power over provincial laws like family law, property law, health care and education. Because of a complaint made before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, the government of British Columbia announced in early June that the school curriculum from kindergarten to Grade 12 would be revised to integrate positive homosexual instruction. Under Section of the Criminal Codethe age of consent for anal sex is currently unequal at 18 for both homosexuals and heterosexuals whilst oral sex and vaginal sex remains at 16, which has been found discriminatory by many political figures, publications, provincial and federal courts.

According to the Census, there were 72, same-sex couples residing in Canada that year, of which 24,